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Neil Jones

Posted 23 January 2007 - 05:24 PM

Neil Jones

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Every so-called "recovery disk" with either Dell or Fujitsu-Siemens on it that I've seen has turned out to be a bog standard Windows CD that doesn't function any differently from a standard OEM CD. Therefore I see no reason why it wouldn't work on a new board.

This is different practice from recovery CDs that you make yourself through an application that is preinstalled on the computer, because those are tied to the original hardware and won't work on any other board. Same practice for the recovery partitions invoked by bashing F10.